WESTBROOK – The Pike Industries consent agreement is out of the hands of the Westbrook City Council and back into the hands of the courts. On Monday, the council, in a 4-3 vote, approved the final reading of the consent order between Pike and neighbor Idexx Laboratories. Representatives from Smiling Hill Farms and Artel, abutters […]
2013
Posted inAmerican Journal
Westbrook's Maine Rubber one step closer to demolition
WESTBROOK – The Maine Rubber building is one step closer to being demolished after a Planning Board meeting this week gave a favorable recommendation to the City Council that tearing it down would improve the downtown. The Planning Board said Tuesday that changing the zoning on the Maine Rubber property to allow for a new […]
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Westbrook's Maine Rubber one step closer to demolition
WESTBROOK – The Maine Rubber building is one step closer to being demolished after a Planning Board meeting this week gave a favorable recommendation to the City Council that tearing it down would improve the downtown. The Planning Board said Tuesday that changing the zoning on the Maine Rubber property to allow for a new […]
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Full text: Gov. LePage’s State of the State address
The full text of the Governor’s speech, as prepared for delivery in the State House on February 5, 2013.
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Coming storm reshuffles high school sports schedule
Friday’s impending snowstorm has prompted many southern Maine high schools to reschedule events to Thursday.
Posted inAmerican Journal
Westbrook council OKs hiring of designer for Bridge Street project
WESTBROOK – Westbrook city councilors have unanimously approved the first reading of a proposal to hire Stantec Consulting Service for $72,000 to design improvements to the Bridge Street bridge area, based on comments made during a public hearing held on Jan. 30. Work on a so-called “multi-use trail bridge” will piggyback onto the Department of […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Event honors Westbrook's Susan Bryant
WESTBROOK – Phil Bryant said he only needed one word to describe his wife: love. That thought occurred to him during the Celebration of Life held in Susan Bryant’s honor on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Westbrook American Legion on Dunn Street. The event was originally scheduled to help the family raise money for Susan […]
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Gorham plants plan expansions
GORHAM – Gorham planners on Tuesday unanimously approved expansion requests for two industries on Sanford Drive in the Gorham Industrial Park. The vote was 6-0 (Tom Hughes absent). Mega Industries, a leader in manufacturing microwave transmission equipment, received permission for a 7,400-square-foot addition to its present plant, built in 1997. Peter Anania and Jeff Tounge […]
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Gorham plants plan expansions
GORHAM – Gorham planners on Tuesday unanimously approved expansion requests for two industries on Sanford Drive in the Gorham Industrial Park. The vote was 6-0 (Tom Hughes absent). Mega Industries, a leader in manufacturing microwave transmission equipment, received permission for a 7,400-square-foot addition to its present plant, built in 1997. Peter Anania and Jeff Tounge […]
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Police: Assault may be linked to earlier Portland muggings
A worker at One Portland Square was accosted on Tuesday by a man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a mask covering the lower half of his face.